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INCRIPTIONS OF THE KALACHURIS OF TRIPURI (V. 37) (He) . . . . . who had come here, gave a field, sown with a khāri1 of grain, in his own territory, to the god, the holy Sōmasvāmin. (V. 38) The Superintendent2 of the city and the town gave (to the god) (the income?) on the eleventh day of the bright fortnight and also on the twelfth day during the fair (of the god) . .. . . . (V. 39) (He) . . . . always gave a jar (of corn3) for every gōnī,4 and also a couple of shōdaśīs5 (i.e., karsha). (V. 40) The Dēśi6 offered one and a half times the one-twentysecond portion of the five spirituous liquors and a quarter of the goods carried (into the town?) among (these) donations . (V. 41) . . . . . . .And the Chief of the Vāgūlikas7 gave (a bundle of) fifty leaves.8 (V. 42) The Pāyatis gave another (bundle of) fifty leaves. And the whole Mandala gave the alms at four threshing floors.9
NO. 43 ; THIS inscription is incised on a broken stone slab which is still lying amidst the ruins of a temple to the north of Bargaon, a village situated at a distance of twenty-seven miles north by west of Murwārā, the chief town of the Murwārā tahsil of the Jabalpur District, in Madhya Pradesh. The inscription does not seem to have been noticed by General Cunningham who visited Bargaon twice, during 1883-84 and 1884-85, and has given a fairly detailed description of the temples and mentioned three other records found there in his Archœological Survey of India Reports, Vol. XXI, Part I, p. 101 and Part II, pp. 163-64. The present inscription was briefly noticed for the first time by Rai Bahadur Hiralal in his Inscriptions in the Central Provinces and Berar10 and was edited by me in the Ep. Ind., Vol. XXV, pp. 278 ff. It is edited here from good estampages supplied by the Superintendent of the Archæological Survey, Central Circle, Patna. The inscription is fragmentary. Nothing has of course been lost at the top, the bottom and the proper right side. But an indefinite number of letters has disappeared on the left side owing to the breaking away of the stone. The extant portion of the record is in a state of good preservation. It consists of five lines, of which the last, which begins at a distance of 2' from the proper right end, contains only three aksharas. The average ______________________ 1 A khārī is a measure equal to sixteen drōnas.
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